GTA doesn’t really glorify that lifestyle though? At least in 5 it’s made clear that none of the protagonists are particularly happy with their lives even though they’re career criminals. In fact they even get blackmailed by a government agency into doing more illegal shit just so they don’t get disappeared to a black site and never heard from again.
Yeah, I get that, none of those games or movies really glorify that life because what’s to glorify really, but it’s just the constant exposure to the wanton violence of the game and people’s worst instincts kicking in. I don’t really have anything against the game or whatever, I will just be interested to see if it’s ever studied about how those games affect peoples attitude towards violence and might erode their ethics in some ways such as turning a blind eye to violence going on around them. Just thoughts anyways. I feel the same way about the Battlefield/Modern Warfare games and horror movies that are basically just torture porn with no redeeming social messages or anything. Anyways, I’m probably being way too serious for a game people use to blow off steam but it’s worth a discussion probably, for someone, sometime :P
GTA doesn’t really glorify that lifestyle though? At least in 5 it’s made clear that none of the protagonists are particularly happy with their lives even though they’re career criminals. In fact they even get blackmailed by a government agency into doing more illegal shit just so they don’t get disappeared to a black site and never heard from again.
Yeah, I get that, none of those games or movies really glorify that life because what’s to glorify really, but it’s just the constant exposure to the wanton violence of the game and people’s worst instincts kicking in. I don’t really have anything against the game or whatever, I will just be interested to see if it’s ever studied about how those games affect peoples attitude towards violence and might erode their ethics in some ways such as turning a blind eye to violence going on around them. Just thoughts anyways. I feel the same way about the Battlefield/Modern Warfare games and horror movies that are basically just torture porn with no redeeming social messages or anything. Anyways, I’m probably being way too serious for a game people use to blow off steam but it’s worth a discussion probably, for someone, sometime :P